Gillespie v. State

BBOOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary.

Bill of exceptions No. 5 complains of the following: Defendant’s counsel objected to the 16th paragraph of the court’s charge, defining adequate cause, by requiring conditions “which is capable of creating and does create sudden passion, such as anger, rage, sudden resentment or terror, rendering the mind incapable of cool reflection as adequate cause,” and when several of such circumstances might be found to exist, though no one of them might be…